23 mile skydive!

[Skeeter]

You need to reach a velocity of something like 18000 mph to escape the pull of the Earths mavity.

I'd imagine it would be easy for a plane type craft to reach that speed at a very high altitude as the air is much thinner?

Float up vertically, then when high whack on some rocket engines and fly out of the atmosphere?

 

[RomanNose]

Interesting, outside temperate is getting warmer now

Probably because it's the morning.

 

[Guru]

They dropped a 60lb bag of weight.

 

[Skeeter]

I don't like the way he's using a mirror to check the switches on his chest...

 

[nemtizz]

Quite anxious huh, I should imagine.

 

[TheBigCheese]

Interesting, outside temperate is getting warmer now

That's because he's getting closer to the Sun...

 

[Tattysnuc]

3.2m people watching live - this has got to be one of the most watched Youtube streams, certainly that I've tried to watch.

I can;t get a lock. 8m Virgin media line, and the rest of the net/youtube seems fine, so I guess there's a lot involved in serving the same feed to 3.2m people simultaneously.

 

[TheBigCheese]

What is the ballast they are dropping? Is it simply sandbags used to control rate of ascent?

 

[Chris-.-]

Dear god, he's so high right now.

 

[KIA]

3.2m people watching live - this has got to be one of the most watched Youtube streams, certainly that I've tried to watch.

I can;t get a lock. 8m Virgin media line, and the rest of the net/youtube seems fine, so I guess there's a lot involved in serving the same feed to 3.2m people simultaneously.

Thousands of people on Twitter are complaining. To be expected.

 

[Caffrey]

Stream lagging? Try this guys restream:

 

[trigger-happy]

still a long way to go!

 

[meh?]

3.2m people watching live - this has got to be one of the most watched Youtube streams, certainly that I've tried to watch.

I can;t get a lock. 8m Virgin media line, and the rest of the net/youtube seems fine, so I guess there's a lot involved in serving the same feed to 3.2m people simultaneously.

try http://news.uk.msn.com/red-bull-stratos-felix-baumgartner-space-jump/ its working better then youtube on my virgin media line!

 

[RoboCod]

The outside temperature appears to have gone up?

 

[Tattysnuc]

What is the ballast they are dropping? Is it simply sandbags used to control rate of ascent?

I hope no-one is underneath that! It would make sense if they had bags of sand or water that way it could disperse over the 77k ft and not land as a single item - that could make a bit of a crater in someone's car/roof etc!

 

[Joebob]

What is the ballast they are dropping? Is it simply sandbags used to control rate of ascent?

If I was in there they would be dropping bags of my human made ballast as I absolutely **** myself!

 

[Tattysnuc]

try http://news.uk.msn.com/red-bull-stratos-felix-baumgartner-space-jump/ its working better then youtube on my virgin media line!

Thanks. Still keeps timing out so far. I'll keep trying though

 

[TheBigCheese]

I wondered that but I think they are in the middle of the desert, I'd be interested the see there the ballast lands!

 

[Chris-.-]

Right, going to lie in bed an chill whilst I watch the last bits off this then the jump, been a good time watching this since 2pm

 

[TheBigCheese]

Just something quite amazing to consider...that amazingly still view from the outside free from judder and always in the centre of the screen...it's filming an object 15+ miles up and however many miles downrange....amazing optics and tracking!